free birds (2021)

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experimental // aspect ratio 1:1 // Full HD // 1 min 20 secs // all parts by Olaf Lenz (2021)

A cinematic improvisation during the lockdown period dealing with freedom of mind. Shot on one afternoon the short presents social behavior of a group of pigeons that are spending time beside a freeway crossing. The story evolves from being part of a peer group to pairing and joining as two to finally something beyond.

review:

“In the stagnant sea of prepackaged images, FREE BIRDS by Olaf Lenz bursts forth as an anarchic explosion- an artwork that rejects rules and carves its own creative space beyond any coded grammar: This is not a film in the traditional sense: it immerses us in a visual and sonic flow that challenges perception, dismantles narrative structures, and reinvents cinematic gesture as an act of liberation.

Lenz does not direct; he composes, deconstructs, and takes risks. Every choice, every cut, every silence speaks the language of pure experimentation, turning the image into a field of poetic and political tension. FREE BIRDS does not aim to “communicate” a message; it becomes a living experience, an unstable vibration between dream and matter, between abstract impulse and emotional vision.

What strikes is not only the radical aesthetic but the consistency with which Lenz pursues a vision of cinema as a territory to explore, not to decorate. In a present saturated with predictable narratives, FREE BIRDS opens cracks, disorients with clarity; and above all restores to the creative act its original urgency:

For this reason, WILD FILMWAKER is proud to support this project with conviction: because films like FRIE BIRDS do not merely exist- they challenge, contaminate, renew. They are living experiments, essential for imagining still-possible cinematic futures.” (Review by WILD FILMMAKER 2025)

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